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Power and progress : = our thousand-year struggle over technology and prosperity /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Power and progress :/ Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson.
Reminder of title:	our thousand-year struggle over technology and prosperity /
Author:	Acemoglu, Daron.
other author:	Johnson, Simon,
Published:	New York :Public Affairs, : 2024.,
Description:	xv, 546, p., [16] p. of plates :ill., ports. ; : 21 cm.;
Subject:	Technology - Social aspects. -
ISBN:	9781541702547 (pbk.) :

Power and progress : = our thousand-year struggle over technology and prosperity /
Acemoglu, Daron.

Power and progress :our thousand-year struggle over technology and prosperity /Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson. - 1st trade pbk. ed. - New York :Public Affairs,2024. - xv, 546, p., [16] p. of plates :ill., ports. ;21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [475]-516) and index.

What is progress? --Prologue

"Two bestselling authors overturn conventional wisdom about how economies work, revealing the untold story of who wins and who loses the rewards of prosperity, in a work that fundamentally transforms how we look at and understand the world"--

ISBN: 9781541702547 (pbk.) :NT723

LCCN: 2023545095Subjects--Topical Terms:

556555
Technology
--Social aspects.

LC Class. No.: T14.5 / .A29 2024

Dewey Class. No.: 303.48/3

Power and progress : = our thousand-year struggle over technology and prosperity /
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505 0 0 $g Prologue $t What is progress? -- $g 1. $t Control over technology -- $g 2. $t Canal vision -- $g 3. $t Power to persuade -- $g 4. $t Cultivating misery -- $g 5. $t A middling sort of revolution -- $g 6. $t Casualties of progress -- $g 7. $t The contested path -- $g 8. $t Digital damage -- $g 9. $t Artificial struggle -- $g 10. $t Democracy breaks -- $g 11. $t Redirecting technology -- $g Bibliographic essay
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520 # $a "Artificial intelligence and other innovative technologies won't guarantee a rising standard of living for workers, according to this lucid manifesto. Two MIT economists explore historical instances of new technology failing to pay off for workers: improved agricultural practices and equipment in medieval Europe conferred few benefits on peasants while lords and churchmen expropriated the increased output; the first century of the Industrial Revolution brought no income gain to laborers; and twenty-first century advances in digital technology have yielded stagnant working-class wages while tech moguls make fortunes. But another path of broadly shared prosperity is possible, the authors contend, citing the post-WWII era when strong unions, government regulations, and relatively enlightened corporate management ensured that workplace automation, rather than de-skilling and discarding workers, improved their marginal productivity and wages and created plenty of higher-skilled jobs. The authors give an incisive analysis of the economics of labor and technology, along with a trenchant critique of the "techno-optimism" of corporate visionaries, though their own ideas about what a truly worker-friendly artificial intelligence might look like remain hazy. Still, this is a stimulating call for social and political action to ensure the rising tide of innovation lifts all boats." -- Provided by publisher.
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